In Greek philosophy Chora was theplace of creativity. Chora will workwith you to bring your ideas to life.

Chora is a consulting firm that specializes in museums and educational institutions. We bring to our clients the creative vision, master and strategic planning skills and management oversight required for the creation and funding of brand new institutions and for repurposing and revamping existing ones.

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There it was, confronting me in the shower of the Crown Plaza Hotel in New Orleans like a hanging accusation; a door-hook sign asking me to volunteer to use the same towels throughout my stay to save the environment from … Continue reading →

Museums are ritual places in which societies make visible what they value. Through the selection and preservation of artifacts, specimens, and documents, museums begin to define for their societies what is consequential, valuable, and suitable as evidence of the past. … Continue reading →

Winter Afternoons in the V & A, pre WWII Denise Levertov “…My shoes made no sound, I found Everything for myself, Everything in profusion… Here was history As I desired it: magical, specific, Jumbled, unstinting, A world for the mind … Continue reading →

With this posting, we are beginning our Blog adventure here at Chora. We would like to use this space to explore issues and themes in cultural education, more specifically museums. For the past forty years of so, we have tried to inform and infuse our museum practice with theory; from psychoanalytic theoretical models of memory and mourning, to anthropological models of identity, ritual, and ideology. Response to this style of work has ranged from infuriating to intriguing. Wherever you might fall on that scale of interest, we hope to engage you in some lively professional ponderings and maybe some new ways of thinking about how we conduct and critique our work. Continue reading →